From Office to Site: admin, engineering and accounts roles in FIFO and construction

Every mine, project and shutdown runs on people who never pick up a spanner. Many of those roles are on site, on a roster, and they get far less attention than trade jobs. The catch is that city-office CVs get screened out, because they don't speak the language of a site.

Inside:

• The office roles on site: site admin, document control, timekeeping and payroll, procurement, training coordination, site accounts and cost control, project and site engineering, planning, quality
• What changes when you work on site, and what employers need to hear about it
• How the screen is different: the systems and words the reader scans for
• A translation table: city-office wording to site wording
• Lane by lane: admin and document control, engineers, accounts and commercial, procurement, training and planning
• The way in: contractors, residential project offices, shutdowns and specialist agencies
• Interview questions for site-based office roles
• A 30-day plan

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Written by The Hiring Desk: twenty years in HR across Australian mining and construction, most of it on the hiring side.

General information from industry experience. Not a guarantee of a job.